CTSR Lines: Vector brushes with simple repeating patterns

[AnnieW]

I was in need of lines with dots and triangles for a project. I started creating a few lines and then I encountered a whole bunch of problems with repeating patterns in the Texture Intensity Brushes in the Designer Persona. My triangles got squished, my squares became rectangles and I went into full pitbull mode and did not sleep until I understood what went wrong. These are my work arounds if you’re struggling with squished or otherwise deformed repeating patterns: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/101575-textured-intensity-brushes-and-body-repeat/&tab=comments#comment-545105.

With the work arounds in mind I’ve created a set of brushes with repeating patterns that hardly show any deformation*. I was on a roll, so I created 114 in 9 families. I won’t use all, so feel free to use them. They're nice for stamps and borders and such. Enjoy!

*) When using these brushes on a tightly curving curve or a sharp corner they of course do deform. Experiment with the brush setting for Corners to find the best solution for your project.

The brushes all contain a centred line (in 3 widths, S, M and L) and repeating shapes and stripes above or above and below. The brushes with stuff above the line, but not under are therefore not vertically centred on the stroke. In the stripey families I added 3 lines with a different center point, those are marked with a suffix ‘mid’. They are symmetrical, the 'mid' version is vertically centred on the whole stroke.

When you import the brush files you’ll see that a few of the brushes in the round families have different heights from the other brushes. The sources of these brushes have a different width height ratio (see the post linked above for the reason why). I added them to the brush files with a height that by default fits to the brushes with the standard height of 80px.

 

Lines CTSR examples.pdf

lines CTSR - pointy L.afbrushes

lines CTSR - round L.afbrushes

lines CTSR - stripey L.afbrushes

lines CTSR - pointy M.afbrushes

lines CTSR - round M.afbrushes

lines CTSR - stripey M.afbrushes

lines CTSR - pointy S.afbrushes

lines CTSR - round S.afbrushes

lines CTSR - stripey S.afbrushes

[Hilltop]

16 hours ago, AnnieW said:

With the work arounds in mind I’ve created a set of brushes with repeating patterns that hardly show any deformation*. I was on a roll, so I created 114 in 9 families. I won’t use all, so feel free to use them. They're nice for stamps and borders and such. Enjoy!

*) When using these brushes on a tightly curving curve or a sharp corner they of course do deform. Experiment with the brush setting for Corners to find the best solution for your project.

Wow, that's a very impressive and useful collection. Thank you for generously sharing these!

[Chul]

Thanks a lot @AnnieW! I look forward to using them; great resource- thanks for sharing!

[thisldo]

Just d/led and gave them a quick try.  They work beautifully!!  This is so nice of you to share this amazing collection.  Thanks!

[AnnieW]

Thanks for the thanks ;-)

[Cuando]

Thank you for a fantastic contribution.

[Pariah73]

Thank you for your generosity!

[AnnieW]

A new and better version of this collection is Brush Factory 1. And there's also a Brush Factory 2.

[freetheimps]

Just downloaded and going to have a play with the stripey brushes... thank you!

[EmmaW]

thank you for sharing these. Very much appreciated

 

[AnnieW]

Thanks! 
 

A reminder: A new and better version of this collection is Brush Factory 1. And there's also a Brush Factory 2.

[MioGremlin]

Thank you for sharing.

[yitzaklr]

These are amazing thank you!